Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet again, and once more the fat was in the fire. This time they decided to run away together. One night Mary slipped out of her house, leaving a note for George, to meet her lover. When she missed him at the rendezvous, her despair made her try to hang herself. Having allowed herself too much rope, she did not try again, but went home to bed. Meantime Sparkenbroke died of angina pectoris in his family vault. Wise Husband George, though he found his wife's farewell note, saw and understood the rope-scars on her throat, let sleeping...
...League baseball season this year. Can Coach Fred Mitchell find a pitcher to support his coming ace, the burly Sophomore righthander, Ed Ingalls? Can he find a hard-hitting outfielder to fill little Frank Owen's 1935 shoes in the right garden? Upon the answer to these two questions hang the rise or fall of the second Varsity nine to be led by the Second Marshal of his class, the peppery receiver, and inspirational leader, Dick Maguire...
...honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many a pub-brawl, many a dangerous jest. When an ignorant young officer had him "crimed" for a dirty rifle (which was actually clean) and his attempts to establish...
...English one: "The patient is directed to go home, hang his hat on the four poster [bed], proceed to drink whiskey quantum sufficit to see two hats...
...with the greatest of pleasure that this column announces, in a dither of vernal gaiety that Mr. Dwight Wiman has brought to the Shubert Theatre one of the very best musical comedies in many a pasteboard moon. It's called "On Your Toes" and if it falls to hang the S. T. O. talisman outside its New York queue, George Joan Nathan is Pollyanna's brother...